Don felt his body being lurched around through the air, he felt very aware of a sensation that could only be described as being torn in half. He felt himself falling and even more sudden, but painful, stop! Then he felt himself lose what had barely remained of his consciousness!

Don felt himself waking, he fluttered his eyes, and saw flashes of light, but nothing came out clear. He heard voices moving around near him, then someone shouting
“I saw it hit over here, come on Spike hurry, we’ve got to see what it was!”
“geez Twilight, can’t we just stop for a minute, my feet are killing me, and I still haven’t had breakfast yet, couldn’t we come back after we eat”.
“No way Spike it could be gone by then, just hurry….I know I saw it hit around here last night, but I couldn’t see where exactly, because of that storm”
Don heard bushes near him move, then the one called Twilight let out a huge gasp, which brought her friend scurrying over. “what’s wrong Twilight?”
Don felt something sharp nudge his ribs and heard Twilight say “Spike go get AJ, it looks like something is hurt here”.
As Don heard Spike’s response he could tell he must have been running to get someone, because his voice was fading off.
“what do you mean ‘something’ Twilight?”
“just go, I’ll show you when you get back”.
Don heard the bushes move again and felt that same sensation of something sharp poking his ribs. He felt someone’s head lay on his chest, which he then realized was very furry, and feel for his pulse. When the head was lifted he decided it was time to make it known he was awake.

Don sat up and looked around, and saw who his ‘rescuer’ was, he recognized and somehow knew who she was without asking her name, but he wasn’t sure why he knew her. Don looked around, it seemed as though he knew about this place, like from a dream, but did not know why. Everything was so colorful and bright, it was hard to believe he was in trouble if he was here. Twilight looked at him curiously as he stood up, while he was standing, he saw that while she was on four legs he was much taller than her, but it seemed that if she were to stand on two she would be as tall as him. Don was perplexed, he knew everything about this mare, and yet did not know why he knew it. But the absolute worst part was, he looked at her and was instantly in mesmerized with her, she was so adorable looking, he couldn’t help himself, he felt like he knew her somehow though.
Twilight herself broke him out of his trance. She extended one of her hooves to him saying “umm hi, I’m…” he cut her off and said “you’re Twilight Sparkle, right?” she looked surprised and lowered her hoof “do I know you”
“I can’t remember”
“do you live around here”
“I don’t know”
“how did you get out here, it’s been storming horribly for days, today is the first day of sunlight in a week”
“I can’t remember that either”.
Twilight started to get a little annoyed “is there anything you do ‘remember’ then?!”
There was obvious irritation in her voice. Don was beginning to worry that she thought he was messing with her and quickly said “I’m not trying to play dumb I really can’t remember anything before just a couple of minutes ago. Well nothing about me anyways, I know a bunch about this place….I think”.
Twilight raised an eyebrow and suddenly felt a bit guilty that she was being so impatient with him, so she decided to help him out. “I can help you remember, I’m pretty good with magic, I can cast a memory spell on you, just lean your head on my horn”.
Don did as instructed and watched magical purple aura appear around her horn as it touched his head. For a couple of seconds, nothing happened, then without warning, a blue aura enveloped him and rejected Twilight’s spell, catapulting her several feet away from him. Don moved without thinking, he teleported and appeared under her, catching her in his arms.

She was just as surprised as he was, but her stare seemed to soften into admiration instantly, she locked eyes with him “I didn’t know you could do magic too, that was a pretty strong spell you did, countering mine, I hope it wasn’t just so you could show off and catch me”.
Her whole attitude towards him seemed to have changed in the seconds she looked at him. Don felt his face redden, and decided to change the subject “I guess I forgot I could do it, well, ummm, are you ok”
Twilight giggled “I’m a lot better than ok, now anyways”.
Don felt his face redden even more, then he realized he was still holding her, her tail was flicking back and forth lazily, then he felt it wrap around something behind him. HE HAD A TAIL TOO! He could tell as he felt it start to wag with delight at her stare. He looked down at himself and was suddenly aware, he was covered in soft brown fur, his ears were pointed and could feel claws ready to spring out from his hands. He was also aware that he didn’t have clothing, but it didn’t seem to matter here, it seemed his modesty would not be needed since his caramel fur was thick enough to cover him. However with the view he had of Twilight while he was holding her like this, if her legs had not been closed, it might have taken more than fur to hide what might happen to him.
Don realized that his hand was on Twilight’s flank and felt himself redden even more if possible, she did not seem to notice. As they stood there, her still in his arms, Twilight felt a sense of longing towards this new creature, something familiar, she couldn’t put her hoof on it though. So she decided to break the silence between them “I think I should thank you for catching me, that could’ve really hurt, you know….the fall and all”.
Don began to respond, but Twilight acted without thinking “you don’t need to thank me Twi-”
before he could finish he felt his head get pulled to hers by magic, and they locked lips. He instantly became mesmerized in her, something, like a spark passed between them, Don could feel his body, almost taking her in. He could feel his tail wagging like crazy behind him. He felt like he could stay like this forever, but he truly had only seconds. Twilight too, was mesmerized, she felt a sense of familiarity when she kissed him, but she couldn’t recall from where. The warmth of his breath was slightly intoxicating, she felt very comfy in his arms, and wished it could have lasted longer.
Their lips had not met for more than a couple seconds before Spike came hustling back through the bushes with Applejack. When they saw Twilight in Don’s arms and their lips locked, they were unable to contain their laughter. They burst out and fell over the bushes in front of them. Don and Twilight quickly broke apart, then Don hastily set her on the ground and, very red faced, said “ummm, it was nice to meet you Twilight”.
She nodded, her face equally as red, and Don turned to leave. But before he could make it more than a couple of steps Applejack yelled after him, causing him to trip “ya got somewhere better to be, by the looks of ya Ah’d say ya don’t? Do you have a home around here, Ah doubt it, considering this here storm we’ve been having lately”
Don turned back around “I guess you’re right I don’t have a home, well if I do I don’t remember it anyway”.
Spike, who finally seemed to get over his laughing fit, got up and said “Well, why don’t you come and stay with us, I’m sure Twilight would loooove, to have you around”
Twilight’s face turned pink and she subtly gave Spike a kick in the rear. Don was surprised at how quickly they invited him to stay before even knowing his name, but decided to be polite, not wanting to overstay himself or make Twilight uncomfortable in her own home. “I wouldn’t want to intrude on anyone, maybe I could just find a tree to sleep in”
“our house is a tree”
“oh”
Applejack trotted over to him quickly, and started nudging him to follow Spike as he and Twilight started to leave, Don resisted a little then decided to come willingly.

Don lagged back behind the two ponies and Spike, during their walk to Twilight’s home. Applejack noticed this and came back to give him some company. “why you hanging back here by yourself partner?”
“I feel like I know this place” he gestured to Ponyville as they walked through it “but I can’t remember from where, it’s the same with Twilight, I feel like I’ve already met her.”
Applejack rocked her head to the side “your kind of odd, Ah’ve never heard of anything like that before. But then again Ah’ve never even seen anything like you before”.
Don stuttered for a moment in his steps, nearly tripping AJ, “isn’t there anyone else like me around”
Applejack shook her head “nope you’re the first….umm, errrr, whatever-you-are, that I’ve ever seen”.
Don felt more perplexed than when he first woke up. Suddenly Twilight fell behind Spike and back to them, and said “I’ve never seen anyone like you either, or in any of my books”
“well that’s a first, Ah didn’t think there was anything that didn’t appear in that endless library of yours Twilight”.
Twilight blushed a little, but continued to speak “anyways, you never told me your name back there-”
Spike quickly cut across Twilight midsentence and said “yeah, I’m sure that would have been difficult for him, you since it looked like both of your mouths were pretty preoccupied”
Twilight gave Spike a small zap from her horn, and he hustled up a ways. “anyways” she said clearly both annoyed and embarrassed to have that brought up again “as I was saying, you haven’t told us your name yet, so what is it”.
Don hesitated for a moment, unsure of his own name, he thought about it, he remembered the rising sun, “dawn”, it was the only thing he could recall, so it must be his name. “my name’s Don”
“well it fits you, odd name for an odd….ummm, creature”
“Spike be nice, just because we don’t know what he is doesn’t make him weird.” She gave Don an ‘I’m sorry’ look and they continued walking. Once they were within view of Twilight’s house, Spike pointed it out to Don and said that he could always find one of them there if he ever went out.
Before they could actually get to Twilight’s house, a pink pony bounced out of nowhere, came right up to Don and said, full in his face “hi I’m Pinkie Pie, I’ve never seen you before you must be new around here I know everypony in Ponyville and I’ve never seen you so that must mean that you are new in town right?”
Don nearly fell over at the speed at which she had scared him and asked him questions. Applejack, however, came to his rescue and said “this is Don, Pinkie, Twilight found him out where the storm was last night, and he don’t remember much at all, so she offered to let him stay with her for awhile. So I guess that does make him a new resident of Ponyville, unless he ever remembers he has a house somewhere else.”
“ohhh goodie, then I’ll go get ready to throw the bestest ‘Welcome To Ponyville’ party ever” without another word she took off in the other direction, leaving Don very confused, and in need of explanation.
Twilight rescued him this time, and as they neared her house said “that was Pinkie Pie, she’s a little, ummm, odd, but you’ll get used to her. She is the best at parties, and trust me, your gonna get one if she said so, be ready for it”.
Don nodded and said “She doesn’t have to throw a party just for me, I don’t want to bother anyone” Twilight smiled, she was starting to like Don more, and more by the minute, he was very kind, and seemingly gentle, she could tell that just by the way he had caught her, the feeling of his warm hands holding her still fresh in her mind.
Twilight was abruptly brought back to reality when they reached the door to her house. She opened the door by magic before Don could rush to get it for her, however his attempt was noticed and made her that much more convinced that he was someone to have around. Almost immediately when they got inside it started pouring rain outside, and Twilight quickly pulled the door shut. She was about to comment on where Don could sleep, but she did not get the chance, because as they got inside the main room, she saw it was cluttered up completely with books everywhere.
“I’m soooo sorry, I completely forgot. I meant to clean this mess up this morning, but I was so preoccupied with finding, well….umm….you, that I forgot, I was gonna have you sleep here”.
She pointed to a small mattress near Spike’s bed that was covered in books. Don just laughed and said “I’m just glad I’ll be sleeping inside from the rain this time, it’s no problem at all Twilight, really”.
Twilight nodded “alright but tomorrow I’ll clean this up, now let’s get some more lights on in here.”
Twilight walked out of the room into what looked like a kitchen with the lights out. Don turned to Applejack to ask her how Twilight had gotten so many books, but then he heard Twilight give a loud yell and he instantly sprinted into the room after her. When he came in the lights were on and he was surrounded by ponies, all of whom yelled “Surprise!” to him once he entered.
Don felt very foolish, he retracted the claws that had come out of his hands and made them stop glowing a magical blue, before he took in the amount of ponies here. Before he could ask how they had gotten here, Pinkie Pie, Twilight, and Applejack, came over to him. Pinkie did not even give him a chance to ask, she just grabbed his arm with her teeth and said “come on” then dragged him through the crowd of ponies.
She dragged him up to a group of three ponies who were talking and said “hey girls this is our new friend Don, come say hi to him, he’s new in town and apparently Twilight wants him to stay with heeeer”.
She drew out the last word and watched the other three giggle. The first one to come up to him had wings, light pink hair, she also had a rabbit sitting on her back and said in the lowest, softest and admittedly most adorable, voice Don thought possible “hi…I-I’m Fluttershy, nice to meet you”
He shook her hoof, then Pinkie pushed him up to the other one with wings. This one was interesting, her fur was sky blue, but her tail and mane was rainbow colored, plus, it seemed like she would never touch the ground with her wings moving like they did. She came up to him before he could say anything “I’m Rainbow Dash”
She hovered around and over him and then said “you look like you’re in really good shape, you and me should race sometime, if you think you’re up for it”.
She winked at him and extended her hoof, and he, without hesitation, shook it and said “Rainbow Dash, you’re on!” he smiled at her and let her hoof drop to her side.
Then she hovered back and the final pony stepped forward “I’m Rarity, its splendid to meet you” she looked up and down his torso “my, my, Rainbow Dash is right you certainly are (cough) fit” she smiled and extended her hoof like the others, but as he shook it, he saw Spike, out of the corner of his eye raise his arms to examine his own muscles, then lowered them and his head.
Once Don had let go of Rarity’s hoof, she started to drift closer to him and it became impossible to get away from her for more than a couple seconds. After sometime and being introduced to other ponies, like Derpy Hooves, who, although she meant well and was unarguably adorable, always managed to crash into something, Don felt like it was time to learn more about Twilight. He searched out Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy and proceeded to question both of them.

“So, umm, I’d like to know a bit more about Twilight, and Spike”
“Sure Don, like what” Rainbow seemed unsuspicious at his question at first
“Well, what exactly is Spike”
Rainbow giggled slightly at his question “wow, I guess Pinkie wasn’t bluffing, if you can’t even recognize a baby dragon when you see one”
Don shook his head “nope, whatever she told you is probably true”
“including the stuff about Twilight?”
Fluttershy interjected quickly “umm, excuse me, Rainbow Dash, this might be a little personal"
However Don’s curiosity was now peeked “no Fluttershy, it’s ok, what stuff about Twilight, Rainbow”
A kind of sinister smile spread over her lips “is it true that you two kissed, like right when she met you?”
Don suddenly turned bright red, to the point where other ponies might have thought he was having an allergic reaction to something.
But his reaction was all the answer Rainbow Dash needed “you know, she’s never kissed anypony before, ever”
Don swallowed “never”
“ever”
“what does that mean”
“it means, you must have made quite an impression on her, it also means if you do anything to hurt her, I’ll buck you”
Don swallowed again, he didn’t know if Rainbow was his friend or soon-to-be murderer. “she said she wanted to thank me for catching her, I don’t think she likes me much at all”
Rainbow Dash smirked, hovered above him, knocked on his head with her hooves a couple of times and said “heeeeeellllloooo in there” then flew off.
Don turned to Fluttershy in confusion “ohh umm, don’t worry, I’m sure she didn’t mean anything by that, uuhh, I should go ummm, find Pinkie and thank her for the party, uhh nice to meet you again Don” she quickly scurried off and left Don feeling lost.
After about another two hours the party guests started to fade, and at last it was just the first six ponies he had met, Spike, and him, left in the house. As Twilight led them out the door and said goodnight, they each shook or patted Don’s hand with their hoof, except for Pinkie, who gave him, as she called it, a “Welcome to Ponyville Super Hug” and then bounced off into the dark. Once the door was finally shut Twilight led Don through the, now bigger, mess of books and cleared a spot in the mess for a bed
“I’m sorry you can’t sleep upstairs where its more comfy, I really am, but Spike beat you up there and I don’t think I can get him to move off that bed willingly”
Don laughed “Twilight, I’m lucky I even have a bed at all, you don’t need to be sorry for that, I should be apologizing for taking up more of your house”
She smiled at him “in the next couple days I’ll try and clear some of this avalanche of knowledge and get you a ‘Spike free’ bed” Don nodded and smiled
“Thanks for this Twilight, goodnight” he gave her a quick hug, making her blush and she quickly hurried upstairs to her room. He laid down on the mattress and covered himself with the blanket and some thick books. It was much more comfy than he had expected
“she must have enchanted it” he thought “I’ll need to thank her for that too”. He fell asleep almost instantly, he dreamed of a horrible storm and Twilight crying out for him.

Author's Notes:

I'll bet many of you are wondering "wheres my clop" well fear not my cloppers...although the first couple chapters are just relationship building...THE CLOP SHALL TAKE OVER SOON